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Practice Areas

  • Estate planning, trusts & wealth management

Biography

Mr. Chill is a partner of the firm practicing in the areas of Estate Planning and Administration and Charitable Organizations. His clients include high net-worth individuals, professionals, business owners, individual and corporate fiduciaries and charitable organizations.

Mr. Chill's Estate Planning and Administration practice includes: the development of creative estate plans to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes to provide for the preservation of family wealth; handling all aspects of the administration of estates and trusts, including post mortem tax planning; counseling families on estate-planning opportunities available with respect to closely held businesses and the transfer of such businesses to younger generations; handling matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, including audits, appeals and ruling requests; handling Surrogates Court matters; analysis of the appropriateness of the use of various insurance products as part of an estate plan; advising clients on the use of estate planning techniques that provide benefits for the family as well as for charitable organizations; and advising executors and trustees in the discharge of their fiduciary duties. Mr. Chill's Charitable Organizations practice includes: formation of not-for-profit organizations; obtaining and maintaining Section 501(c)(3) recognition; and counseling public and private charitable organizations on fundraising and administrative matters.